Past Life Revelations

I had a client who was struggling with feeling valued by others. She’d had a best friend she had to cut ties with, and she missed this person even though she felt the friend was emotionally abusive. Jane (not my client’s real name) often attracted people who didn’t appreciate her or treat her the way she treated others, whether friends or lovers, and she was tired of it.

So, we scheduled a past life regression to see if we could get to a life where there might be karma involved that would explain the ex-best friend’s behavior. I put Jane into a hypnotic trance, and she found herself as a male in Italy, sometime in the 1800s. His name was Ruben, and his life opened with a scene of him traveling in an open wagon with some friends. As we progressed through this life, we discovered Ruben was a handsome shoemaker. He was married to a beautiful wife named Maryann, and they truly loved each other. Ruben and Maryann had four children and lived a happy life until Ruben died a peaceful death around the age of seventy.

We immediately moved into another life, this time to the year 1926. Jane now found herself to be a woman in Zimbabwe, who never married. She had a three-syllable name which I can’t remember now – something like Malaka - and she said she was short with large breasts and saw herself wearing a brightly-colored headwrap. She was happy as an independent woman and talked about her close relationship with her male cousin who worked in a bank. In fact, she had a lot of close friends and family, and she was a happy person. She made a living creating exquisite weavings. When I took her to an important event in this life, she was being recognized for her art and an audience was applauding for her. Talking about this during trance, she wept happy tears.

Once we ended the session, we talked briefly about these lives. The ex-friend only made an appearance briefly in the first life in Italy, as one of the friends traveling in the open wagon. Jane said this friend was a less attractive male than Ruben was, and was jealous of Ruben’s looks, his happy life with his wife, and everything else.

Even though we didn’t get more information about this ex-friend and what would cause the negative behavior in Jane’s current life, Jane was greatly affected by the positive aspects of these past lives. She was so relieved to know she’d had a life with a kind and loving partner and felt more positive about being able to attract that in her current life. She was also grateful to know she had been lauded in Zimbabwe for her artistic talents.

I put a specific intention into the induction when I hypnotize someone, but whatever comes up is what is most useful for the client. What was most important for Jane was for her to see herself being appreciated and loved.

There is never a way to know for sure if we are receiving actual information from a past life. I’ve been hypnotized many times, by different practitioners, and I’ve hypnotized many people myself. It always feels like you’re making it up. But the lives people come up with are varied and interesting, and never once has anyone said they were a king or queen or a famous person. It’s almost always a mundane life. But there are lessons in those mundane lives, and our subconscious mind knows exactly what we need at that moment. Even if it is all made up, it doesn’t matter, as long as we derive some benefit from the experience.